Green Day: Rock Band

Aparentemente, os Beatles são a primeira banda que os fãs podem esperar ver a serem transformados num jogo lançado pela MTV/Harmonix. Um novo teaser trailer, lançado ontem, inclui a banda punk rock Green Day, sendo estes, possivelmente, os próximos a receberem um tratamento especial.
O trailer destaca a banda a interpretar o seu hit single "American Idiot", enquanto exibe as versões do jogo do vocalista Billie Joe Armstrong, baixista Mike Dirnt, e baterista Tre Cool.
Não foram lançados mais pormenores quanto a esta notícia, por isso não há a certeza de isto vir a ser um jogo completo com o tema Green Day ou uma extensão para o jogo Rock Band.
O vocalista Billie Joe deu a dica à rádio KROQ 106,7 FM de um jogo completo.
E, durante a cerimónia da Spike TV's Video Game Award Show, a banda anunciou oficialmente: "Estamos a fazer um jogo" disse Mike Dirnt, adicionando que o título do jogo estava por vir "para o ano". Acrescentou ainda que o jogo irá incluir as "músicas, locais e cenários" favoritos da banda.
A MTV forneceu ainda alguma informação adicional.
Para além de confirmar o lançamento mundial em 2010 para a Xbox 360, Playstation 3, e Nintendo Wii, a lista de músicas será exportável, permitindo jogar através do Rock Band 1 ou 2. Esta opção de exportação está apenas disponível para a PS3 e Xbox 360.
"Este jogo parecerá uma extensão natural à banda [Green Day] e à sua música. Isto irá aprofundar a ligação dos fãs com a banda e a sua história" disse Alex Rigopulos, CEO e co-fundador da Harmonix Music Systems. "Os fãs poderão usufruir de algumas das melhores músicas do catálogo Green Day neste jogo autónomo ou via Rock Band devido à exportação possível. Estamos empolgados por trabalhar com os Green Day e voltar a visitar os melhores momentos da sua carreira, incluindo os seus gostos, conteúdo e cenários, através da nossa interacção musical inovadora."

Fontes:
http://www.greenday.com/article.php?id=877
http://wii.ign.com/articles/105/1054748p1.html

Ensaio de Green Day para os VMAs

MTV Shows

Podem ver os VMAs hoje às 1h da manhã (1h às 4h) na MTV Portugal.

Green Day confirmados nos VMAs

Green Day, juntamente com a cantora Pink, são os mais recentes nomes confirmados pela produção dos MTV Video Music Awards 2009. Já fazem parte do espectáculo a banda Muse e a cantora Taylor Swift.

Os MTV Video Music Awards 2009 decorrem a 13 de Setembro no Radio City Music Hall, em Nova York, e serão apresentadoa pelo humorista Russell Brand.

Entrevista alemã

A MTV Alemã fez uma entrevista com umas quantas perguntas à banda. Aqui estão 5 clips no site: MTV.de Blog. As respostas estão muito engraçadas.

Dia Green Day

"Dia Green Day... na tua MTV

A tua MTV apresenta: Green Day – Know Your Enemy. Na próxima Sexta-feira 24 de Abril não percas o novo vídeo da banda, em exclusivo na tua MTV, durante todo o dia.

E porque sabemos que gostas do trio americano, transformámos o dia 24 de Abril num “Dia Green Day”. Além do vídeo bombástico de ‘Know Your Enemy’ podes contar com um concerto do grupo em Itália, cerca das 02h00 (de 6ª para sábado).

Entretanto, os Green Day acabam de anunciar as primeiras datas da digressão de promoção ao novo álbum. Entre Julho e Agosto o trio de 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams' vai actuar nos EUA e Canadá. Fica por saber se actuam em Portugal. O único concerto deles por cá foi em Novembro de 2000.

‘Know Your Enemy’ já está disponível para download online. Não percas a estreia do vídeo no dia 24, na tua MTV, clicando no link em baixo.

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http://especiales.mtv.es/know_your_enemy/ "

informação da MTV

Novidades da Rolling Stone e MTV

Parece que já houve uns sortudos a ter direito a ouvir umas músicas do novo álbum. Este promete!! Aqui vos deixamos os artigos.

Rolling Stone:

First Listen: Green Day Revive Dramatic Political Punk on “21st Century Breakdown”
2/11/09, 6:10 pm EST

Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown won’t land in stores until May, but Rolling Stone scored an early listen to six tracks this afternoon — and confirmed that the trio will kick off a massive world tour of indoor arenas in July. A full in-the-studio report by David Fricke will hit newsstands in our next issue, but here’s a sneak peek at what Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt have been cooking up with legendary producer Butch Vig at the same California studio they recorded the Grammy-winning American Idiot, Warning, Insomniac and Dookie.

As previously reported, the 16-track album is broken into three acts — Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades — and Dirnt told AP magazine that the songs “speak to each other the way the songs on [Bruce Springsteen’s] Born to Run speak to each other. I don’t know if you’d call it a ‘concept album,’ but there’s a thread that connects everything.” The songs are defiant, but also defiantly hopeful, referencing the unsettled political climate as well as more personal and generational turmoils. Its blend of claustrophobia, freedom and urgency is well illustrated by the album’s cover art, which depicts a tight shot of a young couple kissing against a graffiti-covered wall.

The title track quickly kicks into a familiar Green Day three-chord blast, but morphs into multiple movements like some of the more rock-opera-heavy numbers on American Idiot. “My generation is zero/I never made it as a working class hero,” Armstrong sings, making a reference to the John Lennon track the band covered in 2007. After a big drum breakdown, the song winds into a slower “Bohemian Rhapsody” moment. By contrast, “Know Your Enemy” is a straight-ahead rock song with a chanty “oh-way-oh-way” refrain. Opening powerfully like an AC/DC track, Cool drums furiously as Armstrong sings “Silence is the enemy so give me revolution.”

“Before the Lobotomy” is one of a handful of Breakdown tracks where Armstrong breaks into an uncharacteristically sweet singing voice and voyages into his limber upper register. Lyrics are answered by darts of guitar, and the band inserts pauses and breathing room between the music and vocals. At first Armstrong sings of “dreaming of another place and time where my family are from” but as the song progresses he’s pointing a finger at “Charlatans of lost memories like the end of the century.”

“March of the Dogs” is the most punky and overtly political of the six tracks. Built on big punches of guitar and classic shout and response vocals, Armstrong spits, “I want to know who’s allowed to breed/All the dogs who never learned to read/Missionaries, politicians/And the cops of a new religion.” It’s a biting indictment of contemporary religion that starts intense and never lets up, even for a marching-drum bridge.

Armstrong’s serene vocals reappear on the mid-tempo rocker “Restless Heart Syndrome.” Returning to the line “know your enemy,” Billie Joe advises, “Know what ails you/impales you… you’re a victim of the system.” The track takes a dramatic kick into its loud section, and its neat four-chord structure turns on a minor note. And “21 Guns” has a dash of “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” to it — the track opens slowly with acoustic guitar, adding piano and other instruments until it opens up into a big, lush, super-melodic chorus. “Lay down your arms, give up the fight,” Armstrong croons. “Throw up your arms into the sky, you and I.” After a quick guitar solo and what sounds like a few pretty lines of harmonium, the song concludes with a hopeful finality.

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MTV:

Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown: We Preview The New AlbumIt sounds like the band are trying to match the big sound and success of American Idiot.
By James Montgomery

How does one follow up a multimillion-selling, world-uniting, career-rejuvenating, award-winning, status-sealing album? Well, if you're Green Day, you do it with hooks, ambition and sheer bombast.

On Wednesday night, MTV News heard six tracks from 21st Century Breakdown, GD's follow-up to 2005's landmark American Idiot, due out in May. And though the songs were rough mixes (frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and producer Butch Vig did said mixing, we were informed), the songs packed a wallop — both sonically and lyrically — which is proof that, rather than hide from the prospect of trying to match Idiot's success, Green Day intend to face it head on.

The title track — a snippet of which can currently be heard on the band's official site — opens with keening acoustic strums and a bright organ line, recalling the first measures of the Who's "Baba O'Riley." Armstrong's voice is heard next, bleating "My generation is zero/ Never made it as a working class hero" (echoing their 2007 cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero"), then the song takes off on a multi-sectional sprint, featuring big, clean guitar chords (played windmill-style, à la Pete Townshend, one imagines) one minute, cacophonous drum breakdowns the next — not to mention a "We Are the Champions"-style interlude. Armstrong yelps couplets like, "Video games of the towers' fall/ Homeland Security can kill us all," before the whole song comes crashing to a close with him singing, "Oh dream, America, dream ... / Oh, scream, America, scream." Needless to say, it's a lot packed into just five minutes and change.

"Know Your Enemy" was the next song, a genuine fist-pumper that starts with pounding drums and builds on some muscle chords. "Violence is an energy/ Against the enemy," Armstrong yells, as the track works its way through various airtight stops and starts.

"Before the Lobotomy" begins with some carefully picked acoustic guitar, as Armstrong ruminates on his past ("Dreaming, I was only dreaming/ Of another place and time where my family's from") and explores a newly discovered upper register. It's all very pretty, but eventually falls away, only to come pounding back with huge drums and more of those windmill guitars, as Armstrong growls about "whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes." It's an earful, to be certain.

"March of the Dogs" kicks off with a swaggering guitar line, with Armstrong mentioning "sacrificial suicides." It then showcases Mike Dirnt's walking bassline, augmented with some handclaps. It builds to some interlocking guitars, then stop-starts as Armstrong whispers (Zack de la Rocha-style), "Don't test me ... second guess me ... protest me." Then the song sprints out the door with a guitar section reminiscent of Dick Dale's "Misirlou." All in less than four-and-a-half minutes.

"Restless Heart Syndrome" starts with piano, and Armstrong sings "I've got a really bad disease/ It's got me begging on my hands and knees." He keeps going — again reaching that upper register — as the song picks up a swing tempo, eventually interrupted by a buzz-saw guitar section and some lock-step bass and drums. "21 Guns" — which, if it's not Breakdown's final song, really ought to be — is a cell-phones-in-the-air anthem, starting with more sharply strummed acoustic guitars. It builds on a piano line to the chorus, which has Armstrong bleating, "One, 21 guns, lay down your arms/ Give up the fight ... / One, 21 guns/ Throw up your arms into the sky/ You and I," as the rest of the band backs him with harmonized, "Aaaah-aaaahs." The song ends with piano and ringing feedback.

Green Day cover a lot of ground, and they do it with a style and swagger that's admirable, especially given all the expectations weighing on them this time around. Taking cues from classic rock, going for the massive once again, they're not backing down from the fight. Apparently, Breakdown will feature 16 songs. It's not known whether they all pack as much punch as the ones we heard last night, but we can't wait to find out.

Green Day confirmam ser Foxboro Hot Tubs

Green Day escreveu um e-mail recentemente para a MTV, sobre os Foxboro e aqui vai o artigo que se pode encontrar no site da MTV:

Green Day Exclusive: Yes, They Are Foxboro Hot Tubs, Just In Case There Was Any Doubt

E-mail reveals what most already guessed of the 'new' garage band, whose album will be released 'any day.'

It was probably the worst-kept secret in rock history, but it's a secret no more: Green Day have confirmed that they are, in fact, the Foxboro Hot Tubs.

They made the announcement in an e-mail to MTV News late Wednesday night, ending months of speculation that the Hot Tubs — a secretive East Bay garage act that appeared out of nowhere late last year and sounded an awful lot like Green Day — were actually Billie Joe Armstrong and company playing some sort of elaborate prank on their fans. It's the same kind of stunt they pulled back in 2003, when they released an album as the masked synth-rock outfit the Network.

"We think that the only similarity [between the Hot Tubs and Green Day] is that we are the same band. That is basically the only similarity," the Hot Tubs, er, Green Day, wrote in the e-mail. "We are Jason White, Jason Freese, Michael Pritchard, Frank Edwin Wright the Third and the Reverend Strychnine Twitch. ... We are four guys who love to play music and be spontaneous, [and] after a few late night jams and a few too many bottles of wine, we were inspired to record some rockin' eight-track recordings."

For those who didn't know, Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt's real name is Michael Pritchard, and drummer Tre Cool was born Frank Edwin Wright III. We're just going to assume that "Strychnine Twitch" is the alter ego Armstrong has adopted for the Hot Tubs project (it's also a lyric in Foxboro's tune "Stop Drop and Roll"). Freese and White have both played on Green Day's recent albums, and White is also a member of Armstrong's side project, Pinhead Gunpowder.

In the e-mail, Green Day didn't make mention of anything they were working on (like, you know, the follow-up to one of the most successful rock albums in recent history), but they did spill the beans on a bunch of Hot Tubs details, such as where they got their name ("The Foxboro Hot Tubs were a place we used to sneak booze and chicks into late at night. But most of the time it was just 'dude soup' "). It also discusses their debut disc, Stop Drop and Roll!!!, which fans got a sneak preview of when the Hot Tubs made it available for free download on their official site in December.

"The record goes up for sale any day," they wrote. "We hope people have a chance to pick up the soon to be released vinyl. If you want to buy it, buy it. If you already have it, buy it anyway!"

You can't argue with that logic. And if you can't wait for "any day," you can download the first single from the album, "The Pedestrian," right now on the band's Web site, FoxboroHotTubsDownload.com. Whenever the vinyl version is released — on "Jingle Town Records," which astute Green Day fans will recognize as the suburban setting of most of American Idiot — the Hot Tubs want you to know that they plan on touring in support of it, and they're looking to line up a couple of pretty solid openers to fill out the bill.

"All things considered, either the Network or Green Day would make excellent openers for a FBHT tour," they wrote. "Anyone know how to book a tour?"

Green Day nomeados com U2

Mesmo não sendo um prémio português de maneira a que eles venham cá, Green Day e U2 estão nomeados para os MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2007 com The Saints Are coming na categoria de Best Hook Up.
Para votarem basta irem a http://www.mtv.com.au/avma/ e irem a Vote, Quick Vote e depois escolherem a categoria já aqui mencionada.
Vá, toca a votar!!